Production of French vowels by American-English learners of French: Language experience, consonantal context, and the perception-production relationship

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1290-1305

  Levy, Erika S ^a   Law, Franzo F ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; AMERICAN ENGLISH; CONTEXT EFFECTS; NON-NATIVE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

PRODUCTION;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956414649     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3466879     Document Type: Article

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